PUBLIC FORUM BOY SCOUTS.I was very annoyed to read about Councilwoman Jackie Goldberg's viewpoint about the Boy Scouts of America Noun 1. Boy Scouts of America - a corporation that operates through a national council that charters local councils all over the United States; the purpose is character building and citizenship training , the city of Los Angeles
2. BSA - Bidouilleurs Sans Argent. is a great organization and deserves our support. I was not myself a Boy Scout, but I was an adult leader at age 21. I was an assistant Scoutmaster in Troop No. 1. The Boy Scouts teach useful knowledge. There would not be the same fine organization that the Boy Scouts have always been if they must waver in their morals and their mores over time. - Ronald R. Rushton North Hollywood Wasn't a failure Re ``Strike out,'' (Editorial, Oct. 13): As county workers, we do not seek material superiority to the economically underprivileged employees in private industry. We seek relief from the category under which we currently fall: the working poor. We are offended by any inferences to the effect that our strike was a failure. If this were true, what would have been the point of Cardinal Roger Mahony's plea for reprieve? What would have been the point of immediately continued negotiations between Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County officials and Local 660 of the Service Employees International Union? - Joan Orosco Van Nuys A moral claim Consider this scenario: The United Nations designates all of California as an American Indian American Indian or Native American or Amerindian or indigenous American Any member of the various aboriginal peoples of the Western Hemisphere, with the exception of the Eskimos (Inuit) and the Aleuts. state to redress past wrongs done to indigenous peoples The term indigenous peoples has no universal, standard or fixed definition, but can be used about any ethnic group who inhabit the geographic region with which they have the earliest historical connection. in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . You and I and all others who own homes here or have lived here for many generations are suddenly disenfranchised and forced into refugee camps in the Mojave Desert Mojave or Mohave Desert, c.15,000 sq mi (38,850 sq km), region of low, barren mountains and flat valleys, 2,000 to 5,000 ft (610–1,524 m) high, S Calif.; part of the Great Basin of the United States. . I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. about you, but I would be pretty angry and might resort to violence to keep or get back what I think is rightfully mine. That said, I certainly don't condone terrorism or attacks against innocent people. However, American and Israeli Jews have to accept the fact that there are good Palestinians who have a real moral claim to land in Israel. It is not their fault that the Roman Empire conquered the Kingdom of Israel "Commonwealth of Israel" redirects here. For the religious movement by that name, see The Twelve Tribes. The Kingdom of Israel (Hebrew: 2,000 years ago. The American Indian has as much claim to your home as Israel does to Palestine. - Jack Bennett Jack Bennett (born May 30,1980) is a British actor. He trained on scholarship at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, graduating in 2001. He has mainly worked in theatre, including productions for The Royal National Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre and the Saugus When this happens Re Brodie Broderson's ``Palestinians have no Second Amendment rights'' (Public Forum, Oct. 13): Last I heard, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and all the other Arab countries in the region hadn't adopted the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. Constitution either. So when this happens, we'll keep our fingers crossed that Israel follows. Now how do we get those illegal assault rifles away from the Palestinian police, hummm? - Bradly Gerber Winnetka Reconsidering trees After reading ``Tree-bulations'' (Oct. 12), I realize how important it is for retail shop owners to reconsider their support of the tree-planting effort along Ventura Boulevard in Sherman Oaks. Once those trees are planted, shop owners must deal with surly city employees and their idiotic excuses whenever the trees require trimming. One need only drive the boulevard to notice the overgrowth overgrowth Rapid growth in the sales of a mutual fund's shares to the extent that the fund has difficulty finding promising new investments or it must take such large positions in individual investments that its trading flexibility is reduced. that obscures business signs and storefronts. Sure, the trees look nice, but this is a commercial street, not a city park. Many business owners have paid tens of thousands of dollars for beautiful signs. One large tree can negate any benefit the sign would have provided, and the city is in no hurry to help. - Zig Silverman Sherman Oaks Hope for teens Re ``Lying, cheating `horribly high' among U.S. teens'' (Oct. 7): It was a disturbing article indeed. Ah, but despair not, America. I predict a spectacular career for these youngsters as politicians and power brokers in the Democrat and Republican parties. - Anthony G. Bajada Granada Hills Look carefully I just saw the commercial starring Gov. Gray Davis and former Gov. Pete Wilson endorsing Proposition 39. They talked about accountability and checks and audits like that was something new. That is what all of the folks looking to find a place in politics do every day. They tell us Proposition 38 has no provision for accountability, yet will not admit the money-grabbing Proposition 39 is not any better. With today's politics I can only recommend the following: If a proposition causes your property taxes to go up, look carefully at it and then say no if you heart agrees. - Michael C. Hines West Hills Social promotion I'm really tired of seeing the phrase ``social promotion.'' Isn't it time we called it what it really is: anti-social promotion? When a child is pushed along with failing grades, no one benefits. Not the child, not the parent and especially not society as a whole. In most cases, the child will be doomed to failure, and society will be doomed to ever-escalating attempts to educate or reeducate re·ed·u·cate also re-ed·u·cate tr.v. re·ed·u·cat·ed, re·ed·u·cat·ing, re·ed·u·cates 1. To instruct again, especially in order to change someone's behavior or beliefs. 2. an adult victimized by our public school system. When tires fail and lives are lost, consumers demand recalls, safe tires and millions of dollars in legal awards. When our public school system fails and lifetimes are lost, we do nothing. - Michael Guetzow Woodland Hills Third party votes I've heard it said that a vote for a third-party candidate is a wasted vote. It is not. Ours was never intended to be a two-party system. Every vote is meaningful. The only way to throw away your vote is not to vote at all. Whoever wins must know that there is competition out there - if not this year, then four years from now. So don't waste your vote by not voting. - Mel Kirschner Granada Hills Missed the point Anyone notice Gore's biblical faux pas in the second presidential debate? He stated that in his faith it is taught that ``where your heart is, there your treasure will be.'' Nice try, Mr. Vice President, but what Jesus actually said was, ``For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also'' (Matthew 6:21). It might have been an innocent case of spiritual dyslexia dyslexia (dĭslĕk`sēə), in psychology, a developmental disability in reading or spelling, generally becoming evident in early schooling. To a dyslexic, letters and words may appear reversed, e.g. , but I can't help but think that his slip was revealing. The point Jesus made was that heart commitment follows what we value most. The Gore version implies that our values follow our ever-changing hearts. How ironic. - Tim Bourgeois Chatsworth Caregivers stamp Re ``Where's our stamp'' (Public Forum, Oct. 16): After reading Arthur Sweet's letter regarding stamps honoring small business, I have one better: a stamp honoring the 25 million caregivers who take care of loved ones with chronic illnesses. Caregivers, almost never recognized for their heroic efforts, suffer from stress and depression and are true heroes for taking care of loved ones with cognitive or other impairments. By the way, November is National Family Caregivers Month and Alzheimer's Disease Alzheimer's disease (ăls`hī'mərz, ôls–), degenerative disease of nerve cells in the cerebral cortex that leads to atrophy of the brain and senile dementia. Awareness Month. Perhaps the post office should also consider a stamp to help stamp out such an insidious disease insidious disease (insid´ēus), adj a disease existing without marked symptoms but ready to become active upon some slight occasion; a disease not appearing to be as bad as it really is. as Alzheimer's. - Eden Rosen Burbank Inflation marches on Once upon a time, it took 400,000 men to fake a Million Man March, and even that discrepancy generated more than a few giggles in the press. Then came the Million Mom March The Million Mom March had its roots in August 1999, when Donna Dees-Thomases, a New Jersey mom with a public relations background and political connections, was horrified that a gunman shot at children in Granada Hills, California. , which consisted of fewer than 100,000 people and far fewer mothers. Now we read that ``thousands'' of individuals, which probably means no more than 1,000 families, made up the Million Family March. As the next logical step, I propose that two or three mathematicians meet for coffee and call their meeting the Million Mathematician March. The agenda of the MMM MMM Myeloid metaplasia with myelofibrosis, see there would be to promote the saner, more responsible, common-sense use of numbers. - Jeff Bishop Culver City |
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